November 04, 1899

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Features

Comparison of New York Cable, Electric, and Horse Car Lines

Wireless Telegraphy in the Army and Navy

Aerial Navigation

Stability of the "New Orleans" and the "Albany"

Introducing Marine Animals into Great Salt Lake

By H. F. Moore

Recent Applications of Electro-Metallurgy

A Seed Testing Plant

New York's Coast Defenses

Death of Prof Edward Orton

Double-Deck Turrets

Waterworks Expansion in Boston

By J. A. Stfwart

An Improvement in Rotary Drum-Driers

An Underground Conduit-Crossing for Electrical Conductors

Yachting on the Great Lakes

By Waldon Fawcett

Recent Discoveries in the Roman Forum

The Great Telescope of the Paris Exposition of 1900

Oil-Retaining Journal

The "New Departure" Automatic Coaster

To Inventors

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - November 4, 1899

Recommended

New Books, Etc - November 4, 1899

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions - November 4, 1899

Business and Personal - November 4, 1899

Notes and Queries - November 4, 1899

Index of Inventions - November 4, 1899

Patents - November 4, 1899

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